Date: 17-Mar-2009
From: Chicago Linguistic Society <chicagolinguisticsociety gmail.com>
Subject: Chicago Linguistic Society 45
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Chicago Linguistic Society 45
Short Title: CLS 45
Date: 16-Apr-2009 - 18-Apr-2009
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Contact: CLS 45 Officers
Meeting URL: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cls/
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Meeting Description:
The 45th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society will be held April
16-18, 2009 at the University of Chicago. The theme of this year's conference is
'Locality in Language.' The conference will include a general session as well as
a parasession devoted to the theme.
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
8:00 - 9:15 Registration and Coffee
9:15 Welcome
9:30 - 11:30 Locality in Phonology
9:30 Sharon Gerlach (University of Minnesota):
Consonant harmony and non-local metathesis in phonological
development
10:00 Eric Bakovic (University of California San Diego):
Local blocking and minimal violation
10:30 Adam Wayment (Johns Hopkins University):
Integrating preconditions on parasitic vowel harmony
11:00 Max Bane & Ed King (University of Chicago):
Local predictability in the lexicon
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45 Invited Speaker: Ivan Sag (Stanford University)
Title TBA
12:45 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 4:00 Locality in Syntax I
2:00 Yosuke Sato & Dwi Hesti Yuliani (University of British Columbia):
Phase-bound locality, deletion, and failure of vocabulary
insertion at the syntax-phonology interface
2:30 Hyon Sook Choe (Yeungnam University):
On Left-Branch Extraction (LBE) and Left-Branch Condition (LBC)
effects
3:00 Sverre Johnsen (Harvard University):
Non-local binding in tenseless clauses
3:30 Alex Drummond (University of Maryland):
The unity of extraposition and the A/A' distinction
4:00 - 4:15 Break
4:15 Invited Speaker: Kyle Johnson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Title TBA
TBA Grad Student Mixer
Location: University of Chicago Pub in the basement of Ida Noyes,
1212 East 59th Street
Friday, April 17, 2009
8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Coffee
9:00 - 11:00(A) Syntax I
9:00 Jeremy Rafal (The City University of New York):
On the structure of associative plurals: a view from Hawaiian
Creole
English
9:30 Michael Diercks (Georgetown University):
Subject extraction and anti-agreement effects in Bukusu:
A Criterial Freezing Approach
10:00 Pei-Jung Kuo (University of Connecticut):
Differential Object Marking in Mandarin Chinese
10:30 Vincent Homer & Tomoko Ishizuka (University of California Los
Angeles):
Looking at Japanese Causatives from a French Perspective
9:00 - 11:00(B) Computational Phonology
9:00 Marc Ettlinger, Ann Bradlow & Patrick Wong (Northwestern
University):
The persistence and obliteration of opaque Interactions
9:30 Max Bane & Jason Riggle (University of Chicago): Evaluating
Strict Domination: The Typological Consequences of Weighted
Constraints
10:00 Silke Hamann (University of Düsseldorf), Diana Apoussidou &
Paul Boersma (University of Amsterdam):
Modeling the formation of phonotactic restrictions across the
mental lexicon
10:30 Peter Graff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) & T.
Florian Jaeger (University of Rochester):
The OCP is a pressure to keep words distinct: Evidence from
Aymara, Dutch and Javanese
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 Invited Speaker: Paul Boersma (University of Amsterdam)
Title TBA
12:15- 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00(A) Locality in Syntax II
1:30 Daniel Büring (University of California, Los Angeles):
The Non-Locality of Predicate Integration
2:00 Brent Henderson (University of Florida):
Anti-Agreement: Locality of Movement or Agreement?
2:30 Jesse Harris (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): Locality,
Event-construal and Extraction: Evidence from Language
Processing
1:30 - 3:00(B) Pragmatics
1:30 Jennifer Mack & Yael Fuerst (Yale University):
English Optional Expletives and the Pragmatics of Judgments
2:00 Rachel Szekely (Long Island University):
Existential Dependencies: Holes, problems and other flaws in
the argument
2:30 Luis Alonso-Ovalle (University of Massachusetts, Boston):
Scalar Additive Particles in Biased Questions: Evidence from
Spanish
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:45(A) Experiments in Structure and Meaning
3:15 Susannah Kirby (University of North Carolina):
Child passives: A-chain maturation or argument mismatches?
3:45 Erin Tavano and Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California):
Eye-movement evidence of effort in scalar implicature processing
4:15 Hyun Kyung Hwang (Cornell University):
The role of prosody and pragmatics on wh-scope assignment in
Korean and Japanese
3:15 - 4:45(B) Nothing but Nasals
3:15 Hiroki Nomoto (University of Minnesota):
More on Austronesian nasal substitution
3:45 William G. Bennett (Rutgers University):
The Distribution & Representation of Nasalized Clicks
4:15 Caleb Everett (University of Miami):
Understanding the adjacency of nasal oralization and stress in
Karitiana
4:45 - 5:00 Break
5:00 Invited Speaker: Christopher Potts
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Title TBA
Saturday, April 18, 2009
8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Coffee
9:00 - 11:00(A) Semantics
9:00 Carlos Balhana (Georgetown University):
What Does This "Even" Mean? Modality, Ordering and Focus
9:30 Eun-Hae Park (University of Chicago):
Definite Free Choice Analysis in Korean
10:00 Zhiguo Xie(Cornell University):
A two-layer analysis of ability modality -- a case study of
'able to'
10:30 Olga Eremina (Michigan State University):
Ambiguity or Unification? Choice Function Approach to -TO
indefinites in Russian
9:00 - 11:00(B) Phonology
9:00 Karen Jesney (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Licensing
in Multiple Contexts: An Argument for Harmonic Grammar
9:30 James Gruber (Georgetown University):
The Composition of Phonological Tone in Burmese
10:00 Olga Vaysman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
Mansi Rhythmic Allomorphy
10:30 Peter Jenks (Harvard University) & Sharon Rose (University of
California San Diego):
Syllable weight and High Tone in Moro
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 Invited Speaker: Lenore Grenoble
(University of Chicago)
Losing it in Siberia: Assessing the impact of contact
12:15- 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00(A) Syntax II
1:30 Kensuke Takita (Nanzan University/University of
Connecticut/JSPS):
Genuine Sluicing in Japanese
2:00 Vincent Homer (University of California Los Angeles):
Backward Control in Samoan
2:30 Jackie Bunting (University of Chicago):
Comparing quality and quantity in Ewe: a look at the serial 'wu'
1:30 - 3:00(B) Syntax IILanguage change
1:30 Matt Bauer (Illinois Institute of Technology):
Sound change and functionalism: The role of laryngeal height
2:00 Kelly L. Maynard (University of Chicago):
The Aspect Marker pe in Samsun Albanian
2:30 Ashley Lober (University of Texas at Arlington) & Brenda H.
Boerger (Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics): Spatial
Relationships in Natügu: Micro-level Directionals
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:45(A) Degrees and more
3:15 Marcin Morzycki (Michigan State University):
Degree Modification of Extreme Adjectives
3:45 Julie Li Jiang (Harvard University):
Monotonicity and Measure Phrases in Chinese
4:15 Jozina Vander Klok (McGill University): Indirect modification
in Javanese: Evidence from attributive comparatives
3:15 - 4:45(B) Discourse and Interaction
3:15 M. Catherine Gruber: I just wanna apologize': The socio-
interactional meanings of 'just' in defendants' apologies
3:45 Matt Garley, Benjamin Slade & Marina Terkourafi (University of
Illinois): Hwæt! LOL! - common formulaic functions in Beowulf
and blogs
4:15 Diana Marinova (American University):
Collaborators or Underminers of the Dispute Resolution Process?
Disputants' Reaction to Mediators' Assessments
4:45 - 5:00 Break
5:00 Invited Speaker: Rachel Walker
(University of Southern California)
(Non-)Adjacency in Harmony Systems
6:00 - 6:30 Break
6:30 Farewell Banquet and Entertainment
Alternates:
Phonology
Daniel Michel (University of California San Diego):
Positional Transparency in C'Lela
Syntax
Christopher Straughn (University of Chicago):
Exceptional Case Marking in Uzbek Complementizer Clauses
Pragmatics
Marina Terkourafi (University of Illinois):
Variationist methodology in pragmatics: (how) can it be done?
Computational Phonology
Kevin McGowan (University of Michigan):
Lexical Reflexes of the Syllable Contact Law
Nothing but Nasals
Kenneth Olson (SIL International & University of North Dakota) & D. Will Reiman
(SIL International):
The voiced linguolabial plosive in Kajoko (Guinea-Bissau)
Semantics
Yusuke Kubota (Ohio State University):
More on scale structure and degree modification: the case of 'kanari' in Japanese
Language Change
E-Ching Ng (Yale University):
Singaporean English word-level tone assignment: An optimality theory account
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